The Sun. — London, England, 1810-01-13 00:00:00

To the PROPRTORS of EAST INDIA STOCK. . 1 Our Iteaddrs wili find in a subsequent Column the LADIES ANT. - GENTLEhIiN, As the ELECTION at the ,India.--House is fixed', statement of the Marquis de ROMANA to the Su- A for Twe'sday next, January 16, 1 , take, the liberty of . . preme Central Junta, the substance of which we earnestly reip ,e,;ting „the honour of your Attert6Oce and Sup- • port en that Day. . . laid before our Readers some days ago. , my !dial c is, and always has been, upon your knowledge i of my Cold Loa as a Proprietor, - that ConduCi has, in no in- J. stance, pre ceeded from a wish to serve myself, but from a t desire to e,.iaintain the just rights, and to promote the perms. 1 neat inter eats of the Company. Ahd it, by your favour, I . should Iv : placed in the DireCtion, I never will depart from those principles. It 1 1 4 . been my wish to wait personally upon the Proprie tors as much as I possibly could : when in any instance 1 have it A done so, I trust that the omission will not be' attri buted to want of respect, but to the extensive nature of the Canv ,ss, when compared with the time in which. 1 had to accocaplish it. , - !I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,yery resneatully, • Your most obedient, and vry humble Servant, RICHARD TWINING. 'Strand, lan. to, 1810. Mr. Twining's C om mittee meet daily at the King's Head, in the Poultry, where all Communicationd will be thank tully received. T a very - numerous MEETING of PROPRIE-, .E.L. TORS of EAST INDIA STOCK at the King's Head Tavern, in the Poultry,' on Wednesday, the roth lanuary, CHARLES PIESCHELL, Esq. in the Chair. The following Resolutions were proposectby GEORGE DALLAS, Bart. and seconded by Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Batt. Ist, Resolved Unanimously, That, upon various and 'important occasions, Mr., Twi-. ping has given the most unequivocal'proofs of his attachment to the East India Company, and of hiS disposition and.ability to secure the Rights, and to advance the.luterests of the Pro prietors in general. Id, Resolved Unanimously, That such conduct affords Mr. TWining reasonable ground for confiding in the support of the Proprietors at this im portant juncture; when the terms Upon which the Charter may be renewed, will probably. .depend, in a great degree, upon the requsi te qua lifications of those Gentlemen,who may be placed in the Direction. 3d, Resolved Unanimously,. e That Mr. Twining indisputably does possess those requi site qualifications,. and that they are neither less likely' to prove beneficial to the Company, nor lesi . deserving of sup port,,because they have called forth the voluntary and ho nourable r.commendation of so great a majority 9f the and rectors ; but that, on the contrary, a good understanding and A firm co-operation between the Proprietors aud the Direc tors, are so peculiarly requisite, at this time, that every at tempt to lessen that good understanding, or to weaken that co-operatior:, • should be considered as an attempt, which, whatever the'intention of it may be, cannot fail of proving tighlY injurious to`the interests of the Company.' 4th, Resolved-UnanimouSlY; Therefore that, not only as' friends to Mr:Twining, and his well-grounded hope of support, but also as real friends and -well-wishers to the East India Company, we will continue to exert every fair and honourable endeavour to secure his Elf .icon : arid in this endeavour we.earnestly and conscien tiously exhort the Proprietors irrgeneral to unite with us. CHARLES PIESCHELL, Chairman. Resolved Unanimously, • That the Thanks of this Meeting: 4T gi . yen, to given to Charles Pieschell, Esq. for his able copipet in-the Chair. Mr. Twining's Commi ttee will xne'evilaily-at the King's llead in the • Poultry, where any eolltiiitinications will be thankfully receivm • • • .~:~ MAILS. A alt iV ED-1 Dublin, t Heligoland, 3 Waterford. utJE-4 (iottenburgh, t Dublin, a Waterford. ConsOls PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY A r TWELVE O'CLOCK. b9ii Red. Ann. -69 f THE SUN. SQLEM QUIS DICERS TALEUM AUDIAT,? L 0 N D 0 N, SATURDAY, .TANUARY 13, 181 Q. The- interestirtg intelligence vtl'ch we yesterday . communicated interesting our Readers, respeEttng BUONA.• rARTE'S abandonment of a considerable portion of his commercial restriaions, confi-rneL% T;ie dis tresses of the People of France, ip,,cpn , equ'Acebi the total stagnation of trade, wer&So great, and C;e d!scontents so general, that BLIONAPARtE found it necesslzy, in a great degre.', to aban•on his syst and the following Decree .was published in the Paris Papers of the ad, instant :-- Although we have seen too much of the violence of the Opposition, to feel much surprise at any, measures they may adopt, yet we confess 'we did read with some astonishment, in Paper of this morning, an advertisement from the. Party, calling upon all Peeri of Parliament, and all Members of the 'House of Commons, to attend at the opening of the session, " because," says the Paper i n n ques tibn, " an Amendment will undoubtedly be moved " in both Houses, and the sense of both be, taken "on the momentous subjeet." The Speech with which the Session will be opened is not y4t penned; the Address, of course, therefore cannot be framed; and yet the Party have the effrontery to announce that they will Propose an Amendment to that which does not exist, and that they will take the sense of both Houses, of Parliament upon it ! !' Though a certain party are not in power, and for the sake of the country, we hope are not likely to be in power, yet they think proper-to assume the . privilege of disposing of any. vacancies that may oc cur. As soon as the death' of Sir WILLIAM PITT was announced, the party immediately bestowed the Government of Portsmouth upon the Duke of CUMBERLAND, not indeed from any regard for his Royal Highness, but to censure the present Mini sters for not having disposed of the office 'upon some other person, rather than a branch of the Royal Family, though it has been often urged that the best way of disposing of high offices, would be allotting them to some branch of the Royal Family, in order to avoid additional burthens on the public, to proVide for them otherwise. tut having" niade full use of tly; Duke of CUMBERLAND for the purpose we have mentioned, the party suddenly deprived his Royal Highness of the post whict they had so liberally bestowed upon him, and then conferred it on Lord CHARLES SOMERSET, with as little regard' for his Lordship as for the Duke of CUMBER.. LAND ;. for the obje& of the second appoint ! . ment was the same as tliat of the first, viz. 'to arraign the condu& of Ministry, and to accuse' them of disposing of public ,offices, in order to secure Parliamentary interest. But it so hap pens that Ministers did not confirm the appoint ment. made by the party in either in-tanc9, for the Government of Portsmouth is not ;'otted to .the Duke of CUMBERLAND, Or to Lord CHARLES SO MERSET, SO that all the virulent refkAions of the Party upon this grot nd, as well as upon most occa sions, have no foundation. We suppose that the Party, however, swill bestow the vacant, office upon some other person, that they may have a fresh op portunity of resorting to the same topics of abuse. GERMAN PAPERS, A Nl3 ren DAM, DEC 2.—Less apprehensions, in general,. are now entertained here about the changes which await our country ; and we are convinced the change of frontiers 'alone is the question, and that that which shall be lost in the South-west will he re gained in the North. .Our, funds have again risen. JONKOEPING, DEC. 10.-At nine o'clock this morning peace between Sweden and Denmark was signed by the two respeaive Ministers Plenipotenti ary, viz. the Chevalier VON, ADHEEBERG, and the VON. ROSEN CRANZ it consists of tea Articles, in, which is stipulated the restoration of peace and • friendship, - cessation of hostilities, surrqnder of prisoners on both sides, re stitution of sequestered property, renewal of the convention for delinquents and prisoners, restora_ tion of posts . between the two States, and of com mercial relations, and renewal of ancient treaties. AUGSBURGH, '2o.—From this city and its environs a vast quantity of corn and flour is now exported to the Tyrol, Vorarlberg, and Saitzburgh. in the Tyrol ►here is such a want of oats, teak the Bavarian cavalry is all sent back: The Bavarian Minister of Finances, Baron Vox I;lo,tpEscu, who died at Munich, was 40 years old. The Austrian Generals HILLINGER and Ratt- TER .are returned hither as prisoners from 'France. DRESDEN, DEC. 13.—His Serene Highness ihe Prince of PowrE CORVO, and the Duke of ABRAN TES, have received \ the Saxon Grand C L ross of the Military order of St. Hubert.. On. the 4411 inst. .the Saxon army Was still at St. Polten. Major-General GERODORF, who, is lately returned from our• army, where he, was Chief Of the General Staff, is now bUsied with a plan of Organization for the Saxon army, which ito be.wholly placed on the French footing. Before the dismemberment of Poland in 1772, the population of that , Kingdom consisted of 14,643.,424 souls. • The Ocean, All ion, Trglalgar,• and Favourite transports, from Heligoland, were captured on or about the 16t1a November, and driven on shore neat DECREE. " The ports of France, and all those under her coutroul, are open for all vessels furnished with pro per licenses; that is to say, they must be new ones / of a date posterior to this , ARTICLES OF EXPORTATION. f' Vinegar, paper, paste-board, embroidered stuffs, verdigreas,nils of all sorts, honey, perfumery, corks cut, and in piece . , turpentine, Spanish liquorice, dry pitch, rosin, u riper-berry, raw worsted, lamb and kid skins tanned and Cawed, linen of Brittany, cloths and woollen stuffs of all finds, velvets and cottons, silk, Worsted, and cotton hoSierY, cutlery, trirproings, china, work of leather and skins. Those articles cannot be entered in an greater quantity than one fourth part of the cargo. The other three parts of the cargo pre to be composed of prithitive articles ; those are corn, 'wine, brandy, and fruits. IMPORTATION. 4, Russian tallow, wax, matts, sail-cloath, deals for vari ous purposes, sulphur in floUr, pot-iSh,\Staves, row for fish ing, Spanish dollars, black lead, lead; pewter (litarge), log Wood, pitch and tar, barrila, suinack, arsenic, fish oil, hides, and lig,num ' It is impOssible to contemplate, : without the . nt 1 - nost pride and satisfaCtion, thia(intal;fatlure of every attempt which has been rpade'-'fb..cistroy•the corn puree of this country. BuoNA:, , ,,IRTE, - possessing a great portion of the Continent of Europe, andin fh4.-ncing the remainder, thought he possessed the means of nearly'annibilating the trade Of Great Bri t*, 'has tried the experiment, and persisted, it till the cries of the unfortunate people over whoa] le-tyrannizeS have in some degree forced him to abandon it; while our trade contiilis in the most flourishing condition. The Americans, by a most extraordinary coincidence, seepvd disposed 'to c 0 ,.. tirk 4, . operatemith BUONAPARTE, tremendous Em bargo was to put the- finishing , stroke to the corny Int3,rcial prosperity of poor C.);(1 England. They too have tried their experitneilt, and have. Succeed ed, Iy their own cniessiou, in destroying pear wc-fthirds of tlNir owr trade, while that of preac NAVAL NEWS. FALMOUTH, JAN. t o.—This dly arrived the Ame rican brig Ranger, Capt. CHEWING, in fite days, from Bourdeaux, with wine . and brandy, for orders• The ship Britannia, MITCHEN, from London (Ame-, rica) with tobacco and coffee, 53 days out, called here for orders. The ship Fanny, GLASGOTT, from London, for Surinam, in ballast The ship Croydon , WILLIAMS, from Dominica, 50 days passage, laden with,sugar and tobacco, bound to London. Sailed the brig Sicily, LIVINGSTON, for Gibraltar; the Medway, WATSON, for ditto ; the Hamilton, ALLEN, for Jamaica; and Columbine, PONY, for St, ,Thomas. His Majesty's ship Growler, with the outward bound Portugal and Mediterranean fleet are still de tained, waiting the arrival of the remainder of the convoy Tron Portsmouth, as are also the vessels for the West-Indies. , His Majesty's ship Humber is expected to take Convoy to the Downs, in the early part of next week. The packets, with mails from the different sta tions from hence, are detlined by contrary wind. DEAL, JAN. 12.—Sailed this morning the Ocean, Wexford, and Winchelsea East Indiamen for the East IndieS ; also the whole of the outward-bound, under convoy of his Majesty's ship Ariel, for. Ports mou t h. Dovaa, JAN.. 12.—Came in this afternoon a very large French privateer, mounting 18 guns, which was taken by the Cherokee sloop of war off Dieppe. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12.—Came up to the Mother bank, the Swedish ships Terra Nova, Wohnberg, Am' phion, Lund and Louisa, Frederica, and Wester lund, from Lisbon, having heen detained and sent into this Port. Arrived the Marlborough, of 74 guns ; Coura geaux, 74 guns; and the Peacock.gun-brig, of 18 guns, from the Eastward. Put back from a cruize off Cherbonrgh, his Ma jesty's ship Royal Oak, Donegal, Coquette, and Owen Glendower. • Came in the Rapid schooner, of 18 guns, from Guarnsey. JAMAICA PAPERS KINGsToN,Nov. 4.—The Cleopatra frigate, Capt. PECHELL, arrived on Saturday trom Halifax, in 22 days, with dispatches from Lieutenant-General Sir G. PREVOST, K. B. to Major-General COMP' CHAEL.' Off Porto-Rico, on the 24th ult. she spoke the Bramble schopne'r, of 10 guns, Lieut. FLEMING, cruizing ; and on the 26th ult. fell in with the Eurydice frigate, of 24 guns, Capt. BRADSHAW ; and the Holly schooner, of eight guns, Lieut. TREACHER, bound to Halifax. The following is a list of the squadron at Halifax when the Cleopatra sailed, , &c. Pompke, Centurion, Milan, Melampus, The tis, /Ealus, Squirrel, Emulous, Indian, La Bonne Citoy. enne, Goree. La Furieuse frigate, of 44 guns, lately captured by La Bonne Cito . yenne, has been commissioned, and the command of her given to Capt. SrmrsoN, late of the Goree sloop, of wat. The Niobe sailed from Portsmouth on the Ist of September, having under her convoy 11 sail of mer chantmen bound to the Southern Colonies and the Windward Islands. On the loth ult. she anchored in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes,. Where the ships Earsdall . and Robert, and brig Maria, remained. She weigh ed anchor the same evening, and the 'following day three ships for Demerara, two brigs for St. Vincent, the ships Diligence and Tottenham, with naval stores, for Antigua, and the ship Neva, DENT, for the Bay of Honduras, separated from her. The Sir Godfrey Ifebster also sailed' from 'Ports mouth on the Ist of September, and on -the 3d ult. to windward of Antigua, spoke La Gloireffigateof, 36 guns, Capt. CAM - HEW, five days from Marti nique, on a eruize, all well. On the 6th the Sir Godfrey Webster ran aground on the Merlin Rock, , opposite St. John's Harbour, and continued for se veral hours, when she was extricated from her pe rilous situation by the assistance of several boats from the shore and his . Majesty's brig Superieure then at Antigua, and we are happy to state that we are happy to Mate that she has not received any ma terial injury. On the Bth Captain WALKER proceeded for this island, and on the following day fell in with the Surinam brig, of 18 guns, Captain LAKE, from .a cruize off Guadaloupe. The ROYAL FA,MILY are expelled in town On, Monday, preparatory to the celebration of her MA JESTY'S birth-day, and to remain at the Queen's Palace till Friday. Wednesday Earl CAMDEN presented a•Petition to• his MAJESTY for a license or patent to ere& a new Theatre in the City df London. His MAJESTY rode on horseback on Thursday in 'Windsor Park, for, the first time tllis week. His MAJESTY was only accompanied by Princess Au- OVSTA, Princess Sol-itrA being indisposed with a cold. SP.eINiSH PAPS '?S'. : etAnal4NZ OF HIS EXCELLENCY MARQUIS DE Lb m. - RtiMANA. TO TEE SUPREME CENTRAL JUNTA. Sins,—Your Majesty being convinced that the existing Government is not suited to the present state - of affairs, you have determined to alter it, alat for, this purpose you have empOwered various indi viduals of the Supreme Junta, who declared their opinion on the subjeet on the 19th of September last. Since then, your Majesty, wishing all possi , ble assistance on a subje& of so much importance, nominated a new Commission, in which I had the honour to be included, that I also might inquire, and pronounce my judgment. In order to form my - sentiments on a concern of such, magnitude, I have direcied all my attention to it, availing myself of the resources I possess, and avoided every thing that could divert.'my views from the true interests of the country. Three motives, according to my conception , ought to produce a change in the system of Govern . ment :—ist. When a nation, ' which ought only to obey, dotibts the legitimacy of the authority to - which it is to submit-2d. When such authority be gins to lose its influence-3d When such . authoritj is not only prejudicial to the public, but is opposed to the constitution of the State. Before exposing my ideas as to - the general queStion, I shall endea your to shew, that the existing Government, in alt these three respects, is liable to objection. The doubts on the legitimacy of the Government originate in the principles to which I am now to advert, and in others, perhaps, of which, on ac' count of my - detedtive knowledge, I am not in' formed. _ _ _ _ _ The Constitution of the Spanish Government I 5 Monarchical, and this charaCter has not been re' signed on account of the absence of its %Sovereign. The impracticability of the exercise of the supreme authority under the. present circumstances, does not justlifi c ithe substitution of a Representative Govern' met,: nder which the oath to the head of the Mo' nasty Must be disregarded. That the Government being Monarchical, cannot be represented by another of a different description) without injuring the Constitution, is perfectly ob' vious 5 so that a Junta composed of more than 3 0 members in the rank of Sovereigns in their respeo' , tive Provinces, instead of representing our beloved King Ferdinand the Seventh; can only typify a wt . ' fering people. This Democratic form of Representation is not otilyjnoonsistent with the Constitution of the king' cickn, u put is also inconsistent with the heroic loyalif Of the Spanish People, who have never assumed $ Ovei:eign charaCter since the commencement of the oppression to which 'their Monarch has been e%' . posed. If they have acknowledged the Provincial Juntas, or any other authority, they have had no intention to deprive your Majesty of your supretne .attributes, or to submit to any other will and corn' =lid, than that of their unto , tunate Prince. Sof' rounded. by the bayonets of the tyrant Napoleon' they have sworn with heroid valour that they will submit to no power, but• to that of their lawfu l King, and to no Constitution and Government boll that which is Monarchical. Those Who believe that the sovereignty of tbel, nation is not firmly rooted in the descendants e'l Pelayo, forget the law of the Partidas, which prol -hibits the King or the Nation from alienating tilt Crown 5 . and both of them have sworn the vos-ial under the penalty of being punished as a traitor, no to consent to the dismemberment .of the kingdoo It is one of the irrevocable duties of the Spanish 11 0 ,, tion, which it is faithfully performing. during OP p••eisent Revolution, never to assume to itself the Sirvefeign Authority, never to acknowledge an oilier Prince than the idolized Ferdinand, and nev to 'depart from the Constitution, and the Laws the Country. • The Juntas which the people n' pointed in the various provinces, were not fornitY to acquire for themselves the Sovereign Antbe i t rity, but were resorted to as a temporary reel lation, until the Legitimate Pow' s;Joold • reet ored, and for. the purpose of f ulfilling the de' sign which Spanish honour and loyalty was alone t c , accomplish. t The Provincial Juntas had no authority but Si originated with the Sovereign ; and they represen t ' ect _the Lordship of the Land, and of the Monarell who in condescension to his beloved vsssais, and I relieve them from distress, suffered in his own pet son the greatest calamities. The 'Spanish people then having never depart fora moment from submission to their Prince, o! 1 the Constitution of his Kingdom, it is evident tbs • they, Are not the Sovereigns, and that they`kave n ° , pretended to such 'a character. Neither the Prc) l vincial Juntas, or the Central and Supreme Jun have the authority to govern the nation, since, il r stead of representing Ferdinand the 7tn, they Pc only disfigure his sacred image, but would subve the. Constitution of the Monarchy., These are not -the only reasons which occasie' 'the doubts existing as to the legi.imacy of the pf e ; sent Government. The usurpation of the Thrati on an extent of perfidy like that of the tyrant to 01 prive us of our lawful King could not easily,be for e j seen, or anticipated by the provisions of the writtri law ; but what the form of the Government duetl 'as to its establishment during the minority of Il'i King, or when he msy be iu a state of moral ind..; pacify, ought to be strictly and literally obeyed. It ,)0 1 -in this law we find to be comprehended the tuation of the Spanish Monarchy, as it now s' pears every 'species of Government which is I' l i conformable 'to the direction of that • law, me give rise to the doubts of its legitimacy to will& we have adverted. , The minority of the King or his moral incapacity are cases 'for which the law has provided, and ' which it points out the mode of supplying the, c presentation Of the Sovereign. There is ground I supposing, that when a, Kong beinginsane, oi uud• age, be cinnot exercise the government, the , I- 1 , stitution ought to be of a different kind, from V I of the case when a King is shut up in prison it -- 0 1 own, or in foreign derninions. [lle Noble Marquis then proceeds to state sot°, tnetaphysical distinctions, and next intr duces !i l i remarks which were inserted in our paper of It" , day last. He then resumes h i s observatious. j We all know- the necessity for unity of pow'' -and the evils that arise from the contrary. TDe h l can be BP, aSAbcidte§ ill dip Spanish t,ruvire A as (P 1 . , L immorto state ca •It q. a terminei unnece4 app rouhly stroying which 1 truth ce.t. the in Spaii that to sovi ti bl e 1 Empire ne d ,s have do tyr tr. nt lio qr, area t I ta , plaints .eyik ft entire orgin able energy e n :led the Cc its ow SUCI i II the ne sider a by the my al power near( rnean lieved bot h t propp re,a seleo body tions prop( ttie into this vereil pow ensw extra proc. Su ng t sequi CA we b the 1141 col •